It’s simple and anyone with common sense understands it.

A national border is not a line on a map. A border is a door – a door to your nation. Your nation is your home in the broadest sense of the term, especially if you follow your state and national laws.

The door to your house, in common sense terms, means that you—the homeowner with loved ones and property worth protecting—means that you can determine who or what enters your home.

Suddenly a carbine-wielding Venezuelan bandit knocks on your door? And you live in Colorado? Or San Antonio?

GOOD. The point is obvious. A well protected the border — with police, walls, barbed wire, national leaders demanding national policies that prohibit and punish illegal entry — these elements are very basic components of national human security and common sense.

Think of it as front-end national security, and you suddenly see the genius of the Second Amendment.

The geniuses who wrote the US Constitution understood defense against you. In the 21st century, gablers focus on weapons. But the second amendment is about personal and home defense.

When thugs knock on the door, break down the door, you can submit or resist. The second amendment says you can resist with guns.

But common sense says much better if thugs never entered the US

Unfortunately, a lot of thugs came in.

From my side January 5, 2024, annual column on the strategic challenges facing the US, Challenge no. 6: America’s Southern Front. In 2023, “states in turmoil” (states mired in anarchic violence that spill over political borders or states unable to control their own borders) were the No. 1 challenge. 2. America’s Southern Border Crisis Created a Hybrid War Front – California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas are a hybrid war front line.

Yes. The Southern front was evident in late 2021, but undeniable in 2023. Here’s why: In fiscal year 2023, US Customs and Border Protection detained 736 known or suspected terrorists (KST in bureaucratic jargon) on watch lists of terrorism along the southern and northern US borders. Fact: There were 1.7 million illegal aliens. If two or three of every 1,000 escapees are KSTs, that’s 3,000 to 5,000 violent enemies infiltrating America’s home front.

Five thousand violent enemies is the equivalent of an enemy battle brigade.

Or it could be if a foreign adversary (“adversary” being bureaucrat and liberal media parlance for enemy) paid them off and directed them.

Am I plotting a mass terrorist attack on the domestic front?

Yes.

It’s a legitimate national security concern, and most mature American citizens understand it in their individual gut.

Stopping it requires aggressive deterrence—from smart and courageous leaders.

Why do we face this threat? In January 2021, Biden reversed dozens of Trump-era executive decisions — and the tsunami began. Biden’s policy changes have allowed more than 12 million illegal aliens to enter the US — by some estimates, more than 20 million. The president does not need legislation from Congress to defend the border. As commander in chief, he/she has the executive power to order the strict enforcement of US immigration, smuggling, anti-drug, terrorism, etc. laws.

A strong national defense requires a strong economy — to finance it. Illegal aliens impose enormous economic costs. They are destroying the social safety net created to help needy American citizens. They are also cutting wages. No wonder blue-collar Americans are rejecting the policy outcomes of the Biden administration’s border policy.

Illegal immigration is criminal immigration.

In the spring of 2024, every major US national poll we scanned ranked border security — meaning lawless insecurity along the southern and northern borders of the 48 continental states — as the No. 1 national issue. 1 for American voters. Inflation and economic decline may peak in October 2024, but polls tell me that common sense Americans have realized that protecting America’s land borders is a critical national defense issue.

Austin Bay is a syndicated columnist and author.

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